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Nov 18th, 2016
Madman completes 8,091 rounds of golf
£8,500.00 in green fees & hotels, two holes in one and loads of socks
Words: Tim Southwell
Because it's there...
The 19th hole beckons. Or in Laurie's case, the 8,092nd hole... Here is finishing his epic adventure Maverston, his 558th Scottish course...
13 years, 8,091 holes, £8,500.00 in green fees & hotels, two holes in one and several pairs of socks – that takes endurance, and Laurie Skuodos could indeed well be golf's most enduring individual.
He even sailed in his yacht to courses on Colonsay, Tiree, South Uist, Benbecula and Barra, the most westerly in Scotland, and ventured to the most northerly course in the UK, on the island of Whalsay in Shetland.
Isle Of Colonoy GC. Remote. Lonely...
“It was fun and I enjoyed doing it," says Laurie, "... but though I’m not sick of it, I have gone off the boil. However if I see a new course crop up I will play it in a flash.”
When he's not disappearing for months on end on his golf safari, Laurie, a former RAF PE instructor, is climbing mountains. He's conquered Ben Nevis more than 50 times, so his target of playing 50 new golf courses a year did not seem particularly daunting.
”It is also an admission of guilt of a man with too much time and money," he quipped.
Blimey, what do they pay P.E. instructors in the RAF?!
